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It feels like Spotify keeps recommending the same few somgs to me unless I go for the weekly 'Discovery' playlist.

> This is some next level theater. It's what I suppose both the 'left' and 'right' call "lib shit". It's at the heart of what's gotten me very confused politically: I'm probably pr…

I don't necessarily disagree, but I can't help but wonder if the increase in peace and progress, assuming that's actually true (imperialism has caused quite a bit of suffering, jus…

What makes you think the problems of immigration are not just Trumped up (heh) to distract from the much bigger problem that is the very hierarchy and filthy-rich class (that your …

Apologies if I misinterpret your comment, but aren't we arguing the same thing?

Thank you for elaborating. Truly. Is there any way I could continue this conversation via email or some other form of communication? I very much would like to pick your brain on so…

I see your point. It's depressing, but still.

If I were in charge of company that does what CA does, I'd specifically hire 'IT guys' that I have dirt on that is worse than any of this... Or I'd find dirt on people that my IT g…

How would you define 'fringe', and how does this not include views that are less pro-state?

> Railing against "the state" or "our corporate overlords" is not a mature political position Why not? Historically anarchists played a mentionable role in this whole leftist thing…

How much of that relies on the raided party to have a desire to remain in business and to avoid criminal charges? I can't help but feel that those individuals who really 'matter' i…

I understand this line of reasoning from a butt-hurt nerd perspective, but surely we can agree that it's a good thing that the consequences of 'all this' is finally hitting the mai…

Too early to tell. It took almost a week to get a warrant to raid the CA offices, and while I do sort-of understand why, it's not promising. Furthermore, the Snowden revelations di…

> It is historically accurate to identify the extreme left with the ComIntern, i.e. the Soviet communist party, ruled during his lifetime by Stalin. No, it is absolutely not.

> The historical record of the left is extremely pro-state, pro surveillance I think the problem with your comment is that you're flat-out misrepresenting the 'reeeally left wing'.…

If by public information you mean 'information a friend has shared with you', then yes. I would not exactly call that public, though.

I can't seem to edit my comment, so I'll comment on my comment instead: To put this in a broader perspective, because I'm tired of the comment-sniping that doesn't seem to lead any…

While I sympathize with that concern, I do really believe that actively preventing employees from employing natural means of 'private' conversation is squarely in the 'panopticon' …

I remember not thinking much of the whole CA story back when I read about it (few years ago?), but what makes me less certain about this is that they might have vastly more data to…

> Furthermore, the whole "no data collected" has any value from the perspective of the user only when using real names. That might be true for you, but I've more than once had to d…

Isn't all that end-to-end encrypted?

Most people I know have switched to WhatsApp exactly for the reasons you mention. I'm not a very social person, yet I'm already in multiple chat groups: 'family', 'siblings', 'soci…